Meet Massey CEO Don Blankenship, Evil owner of the WV mine where 25 died

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

Run time: 09:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4Ym8qqR5vU   Posted on YouTube: April 10, 2008 By YouTube Member: jesthufaxmaam Views on YouTube: 9459   Posted on DU: April 06, 2010 By DU Member: Adenoid_Hynkel Views on DU: 1145

 
Here he is attacking an ABC News crew and threatening to have them shot, after they exposed his efforts to buy the WV Supreme Court

The rightwing "Democratic" judge in this clip, Spike Maynard, recently switched to the GOP after he was voted out, and is now running for Congress (with Blankenship's backing) against Democratic Rep. Nick Rahall

[Skittles]

1. repuke whore

:puke:

[Webster Green]

2. Really disgusting!

Business as usual, I guess. :grr:

[dmr]

3. Damn! Leaves me utterly speechless!

:puke:

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

4. the sad thing for those of us in wv...

is that the guy does so much corrupt stuff on a regular basis, and it's become the accepted norm here

[dmr]

5. Money & arrogant power & corruption. The odds are stacked against the people.

Ever read the Grisham book the video comments on? It's a good book.

[WVRICK13]

8. So True

no matter what Don Blankenship does the people here usually comment oh, that's Don alright. Some people actually idolize him. Guess when I move to a third world nation to retire the politics won't be a shock to me.

[WV_Biker]

6. A #1 Asshole

I wish he would keep his ass out of WV politics.

[MattSh]

7. And to think. There's 17 more loathsome than him.

From the Buffalo Beast... http://www.buffalobeast.com/?p=1645

18. Don Blankenship

Charges: As CEO of serial polluting coal giant Massey Energy, Blankenship’s reputation for climate change denial is as well-deserved as his company’s staggering EPA fines. In ‘07, a West Virginia Circuit Court fined Massey $50 million, but it wasn’t a problem for Blankenship, because he’d already restaffed the WV State Supreme Court with his own man—spending $3 million in accusations that the incumbent justice was soft on pedos. Shortly after the Supreme Court reversed the lower court’s ruling, he was busted partying in Monte Carlo with three whores, one of them being a WV Supreme Court Justice. Last summer, Don held a ghoulish pro-coal rally on a leveled mountaintop with fellow retards Sean Hannity and Ted “Suck my machine gun, Obama” Nugent.
Exhibit A: “If CO2 emissions are going to kill the polar bears, it’s going to happen.”
Sentence: Used to fertilize a rooftop garden.

[Staph]

9. John Grisham's novel The Appeal

is based loosely on Don Blankenship's purchase of his own personal West Virginia Supreme Court justice, so that he would not lose a fraud lawsuit brought by another mine owner.

Blankenship contributed $3 million towards the election of Brent Benjamin, who later voted on Blankenship's side in a $50 million lawsuit. Benjamin's refusal to recuse himself was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, who said that the conflict of interest was so extreme that it was a threat to the plaintiff's right to due process.

[CanonRay]

10. This is the future folks

The big corporations bought the W.VA Supremes, and they just closed the deal on the U.S. Supremes as well. We're fucked.

PS: Couldn't watch the whole thing, I got too pissed off.

[democracy1st]

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